Spontaneanation!
Who's it for?: Fans of Intellectual Comedy, Those who like celebrity interviews
Who made it?: Paul F. Tompkins, Eban Schletter, many guests and friends and guest friends
Where is it?: http://www.earwolf.com/show/spontaneanation-with-paul-f-tompkins/ and the iTunes store, and https://soundcloud.com/spontaneanation on Soundcloud!
Length: About an hour per episode give or take 15 minutes. Divided into a half hour interview and half hour of somewhat scripted, somewhat improvised comedy.
Like St. Paul in the Bible, the scales have fallen from my eyes once my ears heard the good news that is Spontaneanation!
Spontaneanation is like a streamlined version of the much loved Pod F. Tompkast with an improvisation focus. It i€™s now just one interview and one improv-enhanced fictional comedy play without continuity from week to week so we the fans benefit by hearing it more often in smaller doses that might even add up to more monthly content in production math that seems WITCHCRAFT. This muggle mind balks at figuring it out.
I particularly loved the La Mariposa story in the dumpster behind Dennys in the first episode with Busy Phillips. The Justin Kirk episode with the performing arts high school sketch was another high point that should knowingly nudge the sides of anyone who has community theater connections. Then there was an insightful interview with songwriter Aimee Mann which I identified with since I too want people to like me and get worried-sad about that not happening universally. And there are so many more fun interviews with people such as Tompkast frequenter Jen Kirkman and comedic expert John Hodgman.
Aside from hearing fun people, it's the great contrasts in subject matter between artistic beauty and fears of lowly mundane existence and grime that keep me coming back. Just make me laugh, I say! And Spontaneation does!
https://soundcloud.com/spontaneanation
